Lorenz (Breslau)

Lorenz (also: Laurentius ; † June 7, 1232 ) was Bishop of Breslau .

Life

Nothing is known about his origins and training. It is believed that he came from the Silesian family of the Pogrell .

After the death of the Breslau bishop Cyprian , Lorenz was appointed as his successor in 1207. The episcopal ordination took place by the Gnesen Archbishop Heinrich I. Kietlitz in the Benedictine monastery Olobok.

Lorenz is said to have participated in the Synods of Glogau (1208), Borzykowa (1210), Mstów (1212), Trebnitz (1219) and the IV Lateran Council . As a close collaborator of the Gnesen Metropolitan , he was involved in the introduction of the Gregorian reforms . On August 25, 1219 he consecrated the monastery church of Trebnitz , donated by Duke Heinrich I and his wife Hedwig .

During his tenure, the Wroclaw Cathedral Chapter received the right to elect a bishop and the right to administer the diocese during a vacancy . In addition, the number of canons was determined and the archdeaconates of Glogau and Opole founded. The Rybnik Premonstratensian Monastery was relocated to Czarnowanz near Opole . Further foundings were

• the Collegiate Foundation Glogau
• the Augustinian Canons of Kamenz and Naumburg am Bober
• the Cistercian monastery Heinrichau
• the Dominican branch in Wroclaw .

Lorenz promoted German colonization in the Ottmachau castellan area and on the episcopal estates in Ujest in Upper Silesia. As the center of the diocese , he founded the city of Neisse before 1223 , and the city of Ziegenhals can also be traced back to him. Because of its good relationship with the Silesian Duke House of Bishop's land ownership by Duke was Henry I extended.

literature

• Colmar Grünhagen:  Lorenz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 172-174.
• Jan Copyc, in: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198-1448 . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , p. 108.
• Bernhard Stasiewski:  Lorenz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 168 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Cyprian	Bishop of Breslau 1207–1232	Thomas I.